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by opportune 1616 days ago
Patents incentivize filing and owning patents. The disconnect is whether a patent actually represents innovation. IME the most innovative things in the software world are not patentable or never patented (algorithms, free software that sets a standard de facto). The things which are patented are stupid “X for Y” where someone tries to either block competitors or extract a tax from an obvious application of technology to a domain.